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  1. On 4/23/2024 at 11:57 AM, Californiaman said:

    Yeah, not funny anymore.  Although it does have it's moments.

    It's become a reflection of the woke world, a dark shadow that has crept across our land.

     

     

    The US certainly wasn't "woke" in 1941. 

     

  2. When my buddy Steve and I play acoustic duo show ( and also when we add more people and play as a full band) one of the songs we always do in the last set is You Can't Always Get What You Want. To take up time, I always do an improv jam over the C and F chords. A few years ago I somehow spontaneously came up with a way to fit the Jessica riff in there. Of course it's not in the same key and it's a slowed down version but it works.  It's become a "thing" in our set now, where I will do an extended jam in the style of Dickey and eventually come back to You Can't Always Get What You Want  I'm sure we will extend that jam even further at tomorrow nights gig. 

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  3. I was in a band for about 10 years called Eclipse. Would have been cool to get a gig that day if we were still a band. 😎

    Now there's another local band with that name and they are pretty much a Journey cover band. 

  4. 1 hour ago, ghost_of_fl said:

    Should have posted it on April 1st.  

    • The product name is, and always had been, properly rendered as WD-40 (or WD*40)
    • Reference to a “red knob” that wasn’t yet a feature of the product in 1964. (the distinctive red cap that we all associate with cans of WD-40 today was originally black)
    • Clean text on wrinkled paper.... etc etc

    Yeah. I didn't think it was real either.  The US might not have been PC in 1964, but it was pretty sexually repressed .

  5. Whenever I played with my full band, it was a bout a 50/50 chance I'd cross the Key Bridge to get to my gig. That will no longer be an option.

    When I play with my buddy Steve, there's about a 50/50 chance I drive over another iconic bridge in Maryland, The Chesapeake Bay Bridge. That was the case tonight. The bridge was backed up with beach traffic tonight, so it took me about an hour and a half to get there. I couldn't help but looking over the water to see if any huge ships were crossing under. There weren't any. 😬

    Once I got there, it was a pretty routine gig. Nice crowd. We played well. Nothing too memorable, other than the sort of ominous feeling upon approaching the Bay Bridge after witnessing the footage of the Key Bridge collapse. Kinda like the way airplanes appeared ominous for the first few weeks after 9/11.  The drive home was much quicker with little traffic.

    Here is an older photo of the Bay Bridge taken from the spot of another gig a few years ago.

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  6. 6 hours ago, Sgt. Pepper said:

    So the US was the only country to ever have slavery? Not by a long shot.

    I wonder what the Egyptians who built the pyramids for the Pharaoh were paid? Oh, that’s right they were slaves they got nothing. 

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    Actually the Egyptian pyramids were built by a skilled working class and they were compensated. 

    The race bating I hear is coming from other circles trying to tie the accident to DEI .    

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  7. On 3/27/2024 at 8:52 AM, SteveFord said:

    The government will probably get the project going and then apply the insurance payment towards the costs.

    If it's anything like the bridge repairs in PA, this is going to take years to complete.

    This. If we wait for the insurance claims to be worked out, it will sit there for 3 years. 

  8. The bridge is part of I-695 Beltway which circles Baltimore.  I could get on at Exit 1, cross the Key Bridge and if I didn't get off, be back where I started in 1-2 hours depending on traffic.  My gig commutes are gonna get worse, I know that. For about all my band gigs, I would either go 695 East or West.  East will no longer be an option for a long time. 

     

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  9. These guys were a popular band around Baltimore/DC back in the 80s. Local radio used to play their songs. This video was actually one of the first videos played when MTV came on. It was shot on The Block, which is the name for the seedy area of Baltimore Street full of strip clubs and prostitution. 😎

      

     

  10. More than 50 of the world’s finest guitar heroes have joined forces for the track, which has been recorded to raise funds for teenage cancer charities.

    The star-studded list of contributors includes Eric Clapton, Joe Bonamassa, Tony Iommi, Peter Frampton, Pete Townshend, Susan Tedeschi, Steve Vai, Sheryl Crow, Slash, Joan Jett, Bruce Springsteen, Keith Urban, Ronnie Wood and Steve Lukather, as well as many, many others.

     

    Can you pick out who's playing what?

  11. An Irish man walked into a bar and ordered 3 Guinness beers.  He drank all 3, paid and left. He continued to do this several times a week.

    One day the bartender asked why he didn't just order one, drink it, order another and so on. The man explained that he had 2 brothers, one lives in the US and the other in Australia and they have a tradition that whenever they have a beer, they also have one in honor of the other two. 

    One day the man came in and ordered two Guinness. The bartender said "I'm sorry. I guess one of your brothers died?" the man said "No. I gave up beer for Lent".

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